--- title: Olympic: China Mocks Australia After Mack Horton Doping Jibe description: China's state-run newspaper China Daily mocks Australia's history in response to Olympic swimmer Mack Horton's doping attack on Sun Yang. canonical: https://time.com/4442987/china-daily-mach-horton-australia-sun-yang-drug-cheat/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-08T14:27:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:49:39.825Z article:section: Sports og:title: Olympic: China Mocks Australia After Mack Horton Doping Jibe og:description: China's state-run newspaper China Daily mocks Australia's history in response to Olympic swimmer Mack Horton's doping attack on Sun Yang. og:url: https://time.com/4442987/china-daily-mach-horton-australia-sun-yang-drug-cheat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae1dfc8cb6f77ea8/6988a186cf40a83966c4461f/mack-horton-sun-yang-drug-cheatchina.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: (L-R) Silver medalist Sun Yang of China and gold medal medallist Mack Horton of Australia pose during the medal ceremony for the Final of the Men's 400m Freestyle on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 6, 2016 in og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Olympic: China Mocks Australia After Mack Horton Doping Jibe twitter:description: China's state-run newspaper China Daily mocks Australia's history in response to Olympic swimmer Mack Horton's doping attack on Sun Yang. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae1dfc8cb6f77ea8/6988a186cf40a83966c4461f/mack-horton-sun-yang-drug-cheatchina.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # China Says Australia is on 'The Fringes of Civilization' Following Olympic Drug Dispute > Sponsored content. 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(L-R) Silver medalist Sun Yang of China and gold medal medallist Mack Horton of Australia pose during the medal ceremony for the Final of the Men's 400m Freestyle on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Clive Rose—Getty Images by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Aug 8, 2016 2:27 PM UTC China’s state-run newspaper mocked Australia’s history as a penal colony in response to Olympic freestyle swimmer [Mack Horton’s](http://time.com/4442088/rio-2016-olympics-swimming-what-to-watch/) comments on his Chinese rival Sun Yang. On Aug. 6, Horton— who had just won the 400 freestyle race— drew the ire of Yang’s fans after calling the Chinese national a “drug cheat” for the second time in a post-race press conference. Horton’s social media accounts were soon inundated with messages from Chinese ‘netizens’ demanding that he apologize. His Wikipedia page was also edited, [the _Guardian_ reports](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/08/swimmer-mack-hortons-social-media-accounts-flooded-by-angry-chinese-fans), to read: “His remarks of Sun is widely believed to be a part of his cultural heritage in that he was practically nursed race prejudice at his mother’s breasts \[sic\].” [China _Daily_](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/999015.shtml) joined the fray on Monday, criticizing Horton’s “cynical smugness” for beating Sun and “the Australian media” for “recklessly \[spreading\] Horton’s rude speech.” They went on to castigate Australia, saying that the country “should feel embarrassed” with Horton’s behavior. “In many serious essays written by Westerners, Australia is mentioned as a country at the fringes of civilization” China Daily wrote. “In some cases, they refer to the country’s early history as Britain’s offshore prison. This suggests that no one should be surprised at uncivilized acts emanating from the country. We should think the same way.” According to the _Guardian_, Sun served a three month ban for having traces of the banned substance, trimetazidine, in his system. 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